{"id":18822,"date":"2020-05-30T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2020\/may\/30\/theres-a-huge-amount-of-anxiety-new-zealand-wrestles-with-back-to-school-virus-blues"},"modified":"2020-05-30T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:17:33","slug":"theres-a-huge-amount-of-anxiety-new-zealand-wrestles-with-back-to-school-virus-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18822","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s a huge amount of anxiety&#8217;: New Zealand wrestles with back-to-school virus blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers call for mental health strategies for students after Covid-19, earthquakes and terrorist attack<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/may\/30\/im-stuck-in-limbo-will-the-covid-generation-of-young-people-face-long-term-fallout\">How will the Covid-19 generation cope with the fallout?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the weeks of New Zealand\u2019s strict coronavirus lockdown ticked by, Catherine* observed her 17-year-old daughter, who is in her final year of high school, become more nocturnal and less motivated: \u201cI thought, \u2018This is actually going to go quite badly,\u2019\u201d she said of her daughter\u2019s return to school, which happened in the past fortnight as shutdown restrictions loosened.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s led to a lot of tricky situations where she\u2019s been really upset by the amount of time we\u2019ve spent saying, \u2018Are you doing your assessments that you\u2019re meant to be doing?\u2019\u201d Catherine said. Her daughter, who has ADHD and dyslexia, performs better when she can talk to people and work in groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2020\/may\/30\/theres-a-huge-amount-of-anxiety-new-zealand-wrestles-with-back-to-school-virus-blues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers call for mental health strategies for students after Covid-19, earthquakes and terrorist attackHow will the Covid-19 generation cope with the fallout?As the weeks of New Zealand\u2019s strict coronavirus lockdown ticked by, Catherine* observed h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18822\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}